Last week, three Pennsylvanians, Rick Santorum (Pittsburgh), Ron Paul (Greentree) and Newt Gingrich (Harrisburg), ganged up on a Michigan native (Mitt Romney) in Iowa.In short, it was hilarious.The Michigander, who lives (part time) in New Hampshire, but who once served as a Massachusetts ...
By late tomorrow evening, most of the country will know who Iowans chose to be the next Republican candidate who, mostly likely, won't be the next President of the United States.Pardon that gloat. I'm an optimist.While all of humanity holds its collective breath, waiting for the state of Iowa ...
I'm tempted, as soon as I finish this, to hop on a plane; fly to Iowa; register to vote as an Iowa Republican -- then vote for none of the above.Why bother? Any Iowan who doesn't vote for Mitt Romney will be voting for none of the above anyway.I don't have anything against Iowa, or Iowans, but ...
Snow. There's only one day of the year that snow could, by general consensus, be described as "beautiful.""Beautiful, Christmas snowfall,'' read the Uniontown Morning Herald's front page headline the day after Christmas 50 years ago (on Dec. 26th, 1961)."Accompanying Santa Claus to this ...
With the run for the Republican's presidency settling on two candidates (Mitt Romney and Newt Gingrich), every sentence, and even every word they utter will be subjected to intense scrutiny.Today, I'm not going to do that. There's ample time to dissect the verbal missteps made by Romney and ...
I've written in the past about those two Uniontown kids who'd played Midget League baseball together at Bailey Park, and then went off to gain national fame as athletes.Ernie Davis, the nation's first black Heisman Trophy winner, and Sandy Stephens, the first black All American quarterback, ...